Beihai County, beside the Jishui River in Bochang, at the foot of Sheshan Mountain.

When Wang Bo saw Pei Changcai and Shi Zihe who were defeated and fled, he looked at the two men in front of him in disbelief.

"I lost all, and I lost all 20,000 people?"

Pei Changcai said with some shame, "I didn't expect that Zhang Xutuo was so great, especially Zhang Qiucheng, which is worthy of being Luo Cheng's base camp. It is like an iron bucket, and it seems weak, but in fact it hides dragons and lies a tiger, and a group of elite troops are buried. We are not able to investigate and rashly attack the city and are deceived."

Wang Bodang strode and unceremoniously exposed the lies of the two thieves.

"Hidden elite soldiers, hidden dragons and burrows? You two don't make excuses for your failure. Changbai Mountain has only 200 soldiers in the palace, and Zhangqiu City has only 50 soldiers, plus three or five hundred county soldiers and township warriors, and they are all old and weak." Wang Bodang said very rudely, "Outside Zhangqiu City, Zhang Xutuo's six cavalry rushed to you, but you were unable to keep anyone, even if none of them could be left behind, let Zhang Xutuo kill seven in and seven out in your formation, and finally escape unstoppable. You said that even if Zhang Xutuo was better, your thousand cavalry could not surround the six cavalry, which was impossible to say."

He sighed, and he worked hard to run around Henan and Hebei to contact the rebels in all directions. This time, he finally convinced several rebels to encircle Qi County from all sides. According to the plan, a total of more than a dozen rebels would join the city of Licheng, Qi County. By then, the rebels would be able to command 100,000 troops, and it would be easy to defeat Qi County.

But the damn thieves Pei Changcai and Shizihe did not act as planned and entered Qi County early. Now, not only were they wiped out their entire army, but they also alerted the enemy.

Even if there are 20,000 pigs, the government troops under Zhangqiu City will have to be captured for a few days. However, the two thieves' more than 20,000 troops were defeated overnight.

More than 2,000 were beheaded and tens of thousands were captured at Zhangqiu City, and the rest were all scattered. In the end, only more than 100 cavalry could escape to Bochang, Beihai, along with the two thieves.

More than 20,000 people, and when he thought that more than 20,000 people were defeated overnight, Wang Bodang wanted to wave his sword to chop these two people, incompetent and idiot.

"Wang Sanlang, it's really not that brothers, we are incompetent. It's really that Zhang Xutuo is too cunning. There are definitely not only three or five hundred old and weak village heroes in Zhangqiu City, at least thousands of elite soldiers. Otherwise, my brothers would not have suffered such a crushing defeat." Pei Changcai was still looking for a loan for his failure, but Wang Bodang was no longer interested in talking to them. He waved his hand and asked someone to take the two to settle down.

"Sanlang, why do we have to attack Qi County?" Wang Bo asked.

Wang Bodang said, "This is arranged by my teacher. Do you know the situation of mountains and rivers in the world? It can be divided into four corners and four sides and a heart of the heart?"

"Is there such a division?"

"Of course, the golden horn and silver edge grass belly is about the advantages and disadvantages of this horn belly."

Of course, these were also what the teacher Li Mi told Wang Bodang. Teacher Li Mi once told him that the world pattern, especially military geography, is actually an irregular chessboard.

On this irregular Go board, Guanzhong, Hebei, Jiangdong, Sichuan and Shu are its four corners, Hedong, Shandong, Jingxiang and Hanzhong are its four sides, and the Central Plains are its central hinterland.

Although China has a vast territory, the nine major regions that can play a decisive role in wars throughout the ages.

In the war that concerns the unification or division of the world and the rise and fall of dynasties, the competition for these nine regions is particularly critical.

Since ancient times, mountains and rivers have been emphasized. Generally speaking, strategic locations will be formed in places where mountains and rivers can be relied on and rivers can be circulated.

Several rows of east-west mountains and rivers and several north-south mountains and rivers are crisscrossed, dividing the hinterland of China into several relatively independent areas, such as the Taihang Mountains, the important dividing line between Hebei and Hedong, the Yinshan Mountains, the Yanshan Mountains, and the Qinling Mountains, the Central Plains and Jianghan Mountains, and the Tongbai Mountains, the Jianghan and Jianghuai Mountains.

For example, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Han River, and these major rivers also play a role in geographical division.

These mountains and rivers divide into unique geographical areas.

The meaning of mountains is to block, but the importance is to have a channel to pass through.

The significance of a river lies in circulation, and the importance of having a stronghold to guard it.

Generally speaking, the fault zones of mountainous areas or rivers formed by rivers flowing through the mountain ridges are convenient for traffic channels to pass through the mountains. Such as the four passes in Guanzhong, the eight passes of Taihang and the few plank roads that cross the Qinba mountains.

Rivers are mainly used as transportation lines for human and material transportation. With rivers as obstacles, strongholds must be established at the intersection of important ferries or tributaries and main streams to ensure control of these rivers. For example, Mengjin and Pujin of the Yellow River, Guazhou and Caishidu of the Yangtze River, Yingkou, Wokou, Sikou of the Huai River, etc., are all accompanied by the formation of important military strongholds.

If you have mountain dangers, you can easily establish a base in a chaotic situation, form local order, and accumulate strength; if you have rivers and waterways that can flow, it will be easier to send power to the outside world, expand outward, and intervene in the overall situation. Most of the above nine strategic places have these conditions.

"The most urgent thing in the world is the four sides. For example, Guanzhong has four obstacles and the fertile landslides around the central plain, making Guanzhong the top strategic point."

Wang Bo has also fought wars, but he used to have a low status and could not get in touch with this comprehensive strategy at the strategic level. However, with just a little effort, he still suddenly realized.

"But why should we compete for Qi County?"

"Because the eastern part of Henan is one of the four sides, it also has its own unique features. The eastern part of Henan is very prominent on the large plains in the entire Kanto region. The terrain here is characterized by low hills and hills in central and southern Shandong, with plains on three sides. In the eastern part of Henan, there are many important military points, all distributed on the four sides of these low hills and hills."

"The Yellow River runs across the east and west of the north and is the key to traffic between the east and west. After the Grand Canal is opened, it connects the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and connects the north and south. The eastern part of Henan is at the intersection of these two key traffic keys."

Wang Bo shook his head, "No, if you say that the two key points are at the intersection, it should be Luoyang or Xingyang, right?"

Wang Bodangdao, "Luoyang and Xingyang are indeed at the intersection of key points, but the two places actually lack defensive support. A flat horse is easy to attack and difficult to defend. However, the eastern part of Henan is different. There are hills here. Although it is not as good as the Qinling Mountains and Taihang, it is also a strategic point."

He pointed out the importance of Qi County's location, "especially Qi County, there are Mount Tai and Changbai Mountains, the Yellow River in front, the Ji River behind, and the Canal on the west side. This is the real strategic point. Whoever controls Qi County can truly control the Central Plains and control the two major strategic nodes of water transportation."

In Li Mi's plan, the competition for Guandong is of great importance. After all, Guanzhong and Luoyang are both places where the imperial court is strictly controlled, and it is quite difficult to easily get involved. Since the battle against Liao, Henan and Hebei were the most affected, and the people were also complained the most. The fire has already ignited. What Li Mi needs student Wang Bodang to do is to integrate the rebels from all over the country, seize Qi County, a highland in eastern Henan, and operate accordingly.

Advance can cut off the canal water transport of the eastern army, or encircle the eastern capital Luoyang, and retreat south to the wealthy Jianghuai to avoid the most elite soldiers of the Northern Underworld.

"So that's it. I said why I had to go to attack Qi County, but now Pei Changcai and the others have been defeated. Do we still want to continue to march into Qi County?"

"Of course, Qi County must be captured." Wang Bodang said in a deep voice. This was also the task given to him by his teacher Li Mi. In any case, he had to find a way to take Qi County.

Even if you conquer ten Beihai, you will have a greater role than conquer Qi County.

"But Zhang Xutuo is in Qi County, so it is probably not easy to conquer Qi County." Wang Bo said.
Chapter completed!